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1:29:20–1:29:45 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:29:231:29:23Frame at 1:29:291:29:29Frame at 1:29:361:29:36Frame at 1:29:421:29:42

Play from 1:29:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 182 · shots 570–574. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Dick (named at t:89:34): man in light-colored shirt and vest, looking upward with mouth open, appears middle-aged visible
  • partially visible person to the left of p1, wearing dark clothing visible
  • partially visible person to the right of p1, only shoulder and head visible visible
Seen happening
  • A close-up of a rocket's nose cone and launch structure is shown. [frame:1]
  • A large crowd is visible atop a cliff or structure, overlooking the launch area. [frame:2]
  • A rocket stands on a launch pad with smoke or steam rising from its base. [frame:3]
  • A man shouts upward while others look on. [frame:4]
Also said
“We will hate you more if you succeed than if you fail.” 89:40 · “Destroy the gun!” 89:43
Seen
rocket, launch structure, crowd, rocket on launch pad, smoke or steam, man shouting
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict between progress and tradition, fear of technological advancement, public resistance to scientific achievement; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, dramatic framing with low-angle shots of the rocket and upward-looking characters

A large rocket is shown on a launch structure as people react to it; one man shouts upward while others look on. The transcript includes lines rejecting technological advancement and calling to destroy a gun.

“We don't want this, Dick. We don't want this, Dick.” 89:34 · “We don't want mankind to go on the moon and the planets.” 89:36 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Things to Come (1936) at 1:29:23 (passage 1:29:20–1:29:45); US record: No renewal found

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